Karen Kruse

It isn’t easy to explain what one is looking for when painting. You live moments in life that translate themselves conscious or unconsciously into artworks, as pages of an open and exhibitionist diary. But if I had to define the thread that connects all my works, I would say that I paint light and silence.
From my first male nudes to my latest works, in which I observe and reinterpret subway scenes in Madrid, my theme has been silence. Lack of communication. Our own and personal solitary confinement.
I observe the people that surround me and find that as different as their lives may seem to me, there is always something we share. The feeling of being alone, and how fragile we are.
In my portraits I try to cross the line that separates us, to reach out beyond the surface of the skin, find the essence of the person.
It’s an elusive exercise, frustrating, enriching and very emotional, to which I come back again and again without remedy, even if it makes me suffer, because nothing arouses my curiosity as much as another human being.
They might not be easy sometimes, but they always want to be true.

Light is as important as color in my images. It invades rooms, waters, trees or faces. Mediterranean warm light that remained in my br...

-Diplomada en Restauración de Pintura Antigua por la Escuela Oficial de Restauración de Bienes Culturales.
-Estudia técnicas de dibujo y pintura, con el pintor Rosendo Loriente Escalada.
-Estudia técnicas de pintura moderna y creatividad con el profesor y pintor Manolo Arjona
-Técnicas de la acuarela con el pintor Juan José San Pedro.
-Curso magistral de pintura con Antonio López.
-Curso magistral de pintura con José Hernández.
-Cursos magistrales con el pintor Antonio López en la Universidad Internacional Menéndez Pelayo, Santander.
-Curso magistral con el pintor Antonio López en la Universidad Complutense de Madrid, San Lorenzo del Escorial.
-Curso magistral con el pintor Antonio López en la Cátedra Francisco de Goya en Ávila.
-Curso magistral con el pintor José Hernández, “La materia del dibujo” del ciclo “El dibujo hoy” en la Real Academia de Bellas Artes de San Fernando de Madrid.
-Técnicas de pintura con el pintor José Hernández en la Cátedra Francisco de Goya. Ávila.

Exhibitions


2024
-Group exhibition. Gallery Arte Sorto. Santander

2023
-“SKOV”. Solo exhibition . Sala Félix Bernardino. San Lorenzo del Escorial.

2022
-Universos Paralelos. Solo exhibition. Galería del Este. Santander

2021
-Winter Exhibition. Galleri 39, Fredericia, Denmark.
-Karen Kruse&Henriette Flindt. Galleriet Industrien, Odense. Denmark.

2020
-Group exhibition. Galleri 39. Fredericia. Denmark

2019
-Solo exhibition. Gallery Arte Roma. Zaragoza
-Group exhibition Kunst pa Domus. Vejle. Denmark
-Group exhibition Kunstbygningen Filosoffen. Odense. Denmark

2018
-Group exhibition. Conde Duque Exhibiting hall. Madrid.
-Group exhibition. Gallery Arte Sorto. Santander.

2017
-Solo exhibition . Gallery ArteSorto. Santander.
-Solo exhibition. San Lorenzo del Escorial. Exhibiting hall of the Townhall.

2016

-Article magazine. “Art of Man”. Edition 21. 2016

2015
-Open Studio Madrid. 
-Group exhibition. Gallery Arte-Sorto. Santander.
-Solo exhibition. Complutense University of Madrid. Psichology Faculty.
-Group show. Park Art Fair International . Triberg. Germany.
-Tenth meeting and exhibition of art Inund’Art. Gerona..

2014
-Group exhibition. Centro Conde Duque.Madrid.
-Invited artist at the Ruta de ...